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this great city, and the men who, when they grad 

 uate, go to other parts of the country, we have the 

 right to look in an especial degree for service to the 

 public. To you much has been given, and woe and 

 shame to you if we can not rightfully expect much 

 from you in return. 



We can pardon the man who has no chance in 

 life if he does but little for the State, and we can 

 count it greatly to his credit if he does much for 

 the State. But upon you who have had so much 

 rests a heavy burden to show that you are worthy 

 of what you have received. A double responsibility 

 is upon you to use aright, not merely the talents 

 that have been given to you, but the chances you 

 have to make much of these talents. We have a 

 right to expect service to the State from you in 

 many different lines : In the line of what, for lack 

 of a better word, we will call philanthropy; in all 

 lines of effort for public decency. 



Remember always that the man who does a thing 

 so that it is worth doing is always a man who does 

 his work for the work's sake. Somewhere in Ruskin 

 there is a sentence to the effect that the man who 

 does a piece of work for the fee, normally does it 

 in a second-rate way, and that the only first-rate 

 work is the work done by the man who does it for 

 the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed as 

 itself his reward. In no kind of work done for 

 the public do you ever find the really best, except 

 where you find the man who takes hold of it because 

 he is irresistibly impelled to do it, because he wishes 



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